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The Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act 1919 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was made to provide for a grant to be made from the Treasury to enable the Welsh Church Commissioners to carry out their task and to set a date for the implementation of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales from the Church of England mandated by the Welsh Church Act 1914.
The Welsh Church Act 1914 [1] is an Act of Parliament under which the Church of England was separated and disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire, leading to the creation of the Church in Wales. The Act had long been demanded by the Nonconformist community in Wales , which composed the majority of the population and which resented paying ...
The Welsh Church Commissioners (whose full official title was "The Commissioners for Church Temporalities in Wales") [a] were set up by the Welsh Church Act 1914 to deal with the disendowment of the Church of England in Wales, as part of its disestablishment.
Representing 43.6% of the Welsh population in 2021, Christianity is the largest religion in Wales. Wales has a strong tradition of nonconformism, particularly Methodism.From 1534 until 1920 the established church was the Church of England, but this was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the still Anglican but self-governing Church in Wales.
The Church of England was the established church until 1920 when the disestablished Church in Wales, was set up as a self-governing, though still Anglican, church. Most adherents to organised religion in Wales follow one of the Christian denominations such as the Presbyterian Church of Wales , Baptist and Methodist churches, the Church in Wales ...
Today, the Church in Wales is fully independent of both the state and the Church of England. It is an independent member of the Anglican Communion, as are the Church of Ireland and the Scottish Episcopal Church. In the first years of the 21st century, the Church in Wales has begun to engage in numerous debates.
In England and Wales in the late 19th century the new terms "free church" and "Free churchman" (or "Free church person") started to replace Nonconformist or Dissenter. [ 4 ] One influential Nonconformist minister was Matthew Henry , who beginning in 1710 published his multi-volume biblical commentary that is still used and available in the 21st ...
The campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church of Ireland began in the 18th century. [citation needed] A rich church, with 22 bishops drawing £150,000 a year in aggregate, and a further £600,000 going annually to the rest of the clergy, [1] it was wholly disproportionate to the needs of its worshippers, and consisted largely of absentee sinecurists. [1]